Chapter 488 (2/2)

With the support of excellent word-of-mouth, ”Wonder Woman” got $19.21 million at the box office on its first day of painting.

Then, three days after the first weekend, the box office figure of the superhero movie reached $61.39 million.

When Simon returned to North America after a week's work in Australia, the box office of ”Wonder Woman” was officially released: 91.12 million US dollars!

Inspired by wonder woman, the total box office amount of North American Theaters in a single week from June 5 to June 11 reached 162.86 million US dollars.

However, more than half of the weekly box office share was cut by wonder woman. In the previous weeks, the box office of ”lethal weapon 3”, ”nuns are crazy” and ”big ambition” all fell by 30%.

Because the word-of-mouth is not as good as ”lethal weapon 3” and ”nuns are crazy”, and the theme is not popular with the audience, Tom Cruise's ”big ambition” started much lower than expected, and this week's decline was even worse, reaching 46%, compared with the first week's $15.62 million, and the next week's ticket room was only $8.39 million.

With a revenue of $24.01 million in two weeks, the box office in a single week has shrunk to more than $8 million. Even if the decline in the box office has eased, the total box office in North America of big ambition is expected to hardly exceed $50 million.

However, the total budget of Columbia Pictures for the production and publicity of this project is 90 million US dollars.

Even if the time cost is not taken into account, ambition needs to earn about $60 million at the box office in North America before it can recover all its investment through subsequent overseas distribution, video channels and TV platforms.

The box office in North America is less than US $50 million, which means that Columbia Pictures is hard to recover the total cost of US $90 million in the whole effective film distribution cycle of the film, which is as long as five to seven years.

From the lesson of great ambition, it is obvious that Hollywood will not be involved in similar subjects for a long time to come.

Tom Cruise's declining popularity has also been severely impacted by the failure of big ambition.

Next, the Hollywood actor can only return to the low budget field.

It's true that low budget movies can be big and small. However, less than one tenth of Hollywood's hundreds of low budget movies can be big and small every year.

Moreover, according to the Convention, cruise can only fail twice at most.

If the follow-up two consecutive films do not sell well, the other party's popularity will drop.

DC movie universe has released three movies, Batman: the moment of war, which grossed $82.39 million in the first week; Batman: The Dark Knight, which grossed $102.07 million in the first week; and flash, which grossed $72.86 million in the first week.

”Wonder Woman” was second only to ”Batman: The Dark Knight” in the first week of the four films.

Moreover, ”Batman: The Dark Knight” obviously has the popularity bonus of the sequel. If we don't consider this factor and only calculate the first song, ”Wonder Woman” is undoubtedly the highest among the three films ”Batman: the moment of war” and ”lightning man”.

As a DC movie universe project, which is not expected to be a heroine superhero movie in advance, the results of the first week of wonder woman really surprised many people.

In the original agreement, ”Wonder Woman” was jointly invested by Denise and Warner Brothers, and Denise was responsible for the distribution.Even with half the investment in the film, Terry Semel complained half truely about Simon's bias in a phone call with him.

The box office of wonder woman will break through 90 million US dollars in the first week, and the total box office in North America will break through 300 million US dollars, which is almost certain.

In the first three series, although the box office of ”flash” in North America has reached 250 million US dollars, it is obviously the lowest in both the opening and the expected box office.

Compared with Superman, who just started shooting and went to Australia to take charge, Simon was ”indifferent” to the original flash.

Moreover, the comparison between ”flash” and ”Wonder Woman” is not only the box office, but also the sales of peripheral products of the two projects.

With the release of wonder woman, the original album, which was released in one week, was sold because of Diana Prince's own background music. 870000 copies were sold in seven days. It is expected that the total sales in the future will exceed 10 million.

The movie's role dolls and wonder woman's weapons and props are also sold far more than the original ”flash.”.

Among them, the limited edition full set of 10000 Amazon female soldiers was sold out within a week, although the price was as high as $1000. Only this one brought in $10 million.

Is Simon partial?

Of course.

At the beginning, Simon hoped to exchange half of the investment rights of Superman for half of the investment rights of flash and steel. This is actually a very cost-effective business, but Simon's proposal was eventually rejected by Warner.

In order to maintain the unity of DC movie universe, Simon still accepted the two superheroes. As a producer with a strong voice, Simon has actually invested enough energy in these two projects.

However, it is not realistic for him to treat ”lightning man” and ”steel bone” as attentively as ”Batman”, ”Wonder Woman” and ”Superman”.

After the first week, on June 12, North American Theaters re launched two new films, namely, Warner Bros.'s ”brother in need” and Columbia Pictures' Samsung's ”warrior again.”.

”Brother and brother” is a comedy, and ”remaking the warrior” is an action movie starring two male stars, Duff longel and Shanger Winton.

However, only from the perspective of the scale of the opening painting, the two films are basically cannon fodder left behind wonder woman. The number of opening screens for brother and brother is only 1140, and the number of opening screens for warrior is only 1281. The scale of the two films is not as large as wonder woman.

Warner Bros. and Columbia probably didn't want to give up this summer program, and they didn't have confidence in these two films, so they chose this distribution strategy.

However, under the crushing popularity of wonder woman, the two films, which were used as cannon fodder, failed to splash after the release.

At the end of the second week, the box office of wonder woman fell only 25% and received another $68.39 million.

In two weeks, the cumulative box office of the superhero blockbuster has reached 159.51 million US dollars, directly surpassing all the films released in 1992 and ranking first in the annual box office list.